[Lazarus] TProcess and Windows XP

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2013, Sven Barth wrote:

> Am 03.07.2013 09:03, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, 3 Jul 2013, Richard Mace wrote:
>> 
>>> It was the complete path to an .msi file. Does that make a difference?
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>> You can only specify executables in TProcess. .msi is not an executable 
>> file.
>> You need to use the shellexecute function (maybe the LCL provides an 
>> equivalent) to start the executable associated with a file type (in this 
>> case, the MS installer).
>> 
> Or start the executable which processes *.msi files and pass the *.msi file 
> as argument ;)

Obviously. I just don't know what that executable is or where it resides.

Michael.